Removing the detaching and KDEV_SESSION

Niko Sams niko.sams at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 23:48:57 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 00:44, David Nolden <zwabel at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 31 Januar 2010 22:53:12 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
>> Reasoning: Its impossible by now to let users easily fetch the debug
>> output of kdevelop and add it to a bugreport. They have to jump through
>> hoops to do that as normal stdout-redirection doesn't work anymore. This
>> just adds yet another problem on top of the existing ones. And at this
>> point I value these problems higher than separating the duchain data.
>
> Sorry I misunderstood the last message.
>
> This is stupid. We can simply add a "--nofork" option and be ready, it would
> solve both the debugging- and the debug-output problem. It doesn't matter
> whether you tell a user to do "kdevelop > ./output" or "kdevelop --nofork >
> ./output". That option will cost only 5 lines of code.
>
> Yes, it will use another .kdevduchain dir with the --nofork option, but that
> simply doesn't matter, because the duchain dir is wiped anyway after 2
> crashes.
>
> And I find it annoying that this subject is brought up again and again.
> Changing anything about that is out of discussion in medium-term, as the
> relation between effort and potential value is exorbitantly bad.
>
If this is possible - why don't we do it always?
What is the problem with multiple sessions in one duchain repository?

Niko




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